The leftist Die Linke party won the most votes in Berlin, even as the far right AfD won a state election in the north.

Germany is now facing the same systemic crisis that its leaders once diagnosed in other European countries, such as Greece, Portugal, and Spain, in the early 2010s. Economic woes and anti-immigrant sentiment have given rise to anti-establishment politics, which in turn is reshaping the country’s political landscape. Indeed, after the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party achieved a historic result…

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